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Tag: women construction

Workforce
Career night aims at signing up more Cleveland-area women for construction apprenticeships
With the area’s number of women working in construction and the the trades dead even with the national average of 3 percent, trade groups in Northeast Ohio are looking to change that. The Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council’s Tradeswomen Committee will host a career night on Tuesday, February 24 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Plumbers […]
February 22, 2015
Cleveland Building & Construction Trades council
Workforce
How a heavy equipment operator, mother of two went from no driver’s license to running her own construction crew
“What am I doing here?” That was Patricia Hook’s first question when she arrived at J. Pettiecord two years ago. The mother of two didn’t have a driver’s license or any construction experience, and she looked around the Des Moines, Iowa, contractor’s yard filled with heavy trucks and equipment, and “it kinda scared me.” Despite […]
January 29, 2015
Equipment operator Patricia Hook J. Pettiecord
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Sioux Falls women finding work they love in construction industry
After seeing the results of a Pew Research survey saying 40 percent of U.S. moms are now the breadwinners in their households, news station KSFY out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, did some digging and filed an interesting report about the number of women in the area now doing construction work. KSFY talked to several women […]
June 17, 2013
Sioux Falls women in construction
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